1887 - Blainville, France, Marcel Duchamp
is born.
1902 - L'Eglise de Blainville - One of
the first paintings done by Duchamp with the Cezanne influence.
1912 - Nude Decendind the staircase -
Done in the cubist style, he produced 2 other similar paintings. he devised this tequnique for showing motion. Initially turned
away by the Independant Artists Society for poking fun at the static style of Cubism. Another humourish moment for Duchamp
as this was his ploy, to show the weakness of Cubism.
1917 - The Fountain - Presented under
the alias R. Mutt (see the page entitled R. Mutt 1917)
1918 - Tu m' would become the last canvas
for Duchamp to ever paint on, filled with iconic imagry, the assemblege itself depicts a certain disdain for painting.
1924 - The Rotative demi-sphere -
One of the pieces Duchamp would create that would lead to the influence of the art movement, Op Art.
1915-1923 - The Large glass, which was
greatly worked on by Duchamp is finally laid to rest, and deemed incomplete by him.
1938 - Duchamp suspends coal bags over a stove
as part of an installation for a Surrealism venue in France.
1941 - Box in a Valise - simply put,
it's a portable museum of Duchamp's works
1946-1966 - Duchamp works for close to 20
years to produce Etant Donnes, a combination piece to The Large Glass. The piece looking like a huge wooden
door, upon inspection, the viewer would find two small holes to look though (like in the large glass), beyond these holes
was a 3D space of mountains, scenery, and a naked woman lying in the grass.
1968 - Duchamp dies, and is laid to rest in his family
grave.
**Both The Large Glass, and Etant Donnes, are the same
image. One however is a depiction of the abstract, and the other the visible world we know.**
Hulten, Puntus. Marcel Duchamp: Work and Life. Cambridge: MIT Press.1993.
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Tomkins, C. The World of Marcel Duchamp 1887 - .New York:
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